Syrian-Lebanese Communist Party

The Syrian-Lebanese Communist Party (PCSL) ws a Marxist-Leninist communist political party that existed in French-ruled Syria and Lebanon from 1924 to 1964. The party was the first Arab Levantine communist party, formed two years after the Jewish-dominated Communist Party of Palestine; it was one of the driving forces behind the 1925 uprising. From 1925 to 1928, the leadership was imprisoned, and the party operated underground until 1936. That year, it began to shift towards nationalism and away from socialism, and the party split between the Syrian Communist Party and Lebanese Communist Party in 1943, with the two factions formally separating in 1964.